This roundtable brings together anti-war activists, cultural workers, and politically engaged scholars to address not only the looming spectacle of renewed U.S. war on North Korea but also the unending Korean War that hovers illegibly below the surface in the United States.

Following reports last week that the Trump administration was preparing to issue a new policy aimed at rolling back the legal rights of transgender people, people across the country took to the streets and organized grassroots actions to fight back.